Barbour's Irish Flax Thread Hand-reading Victorian Era Trade Card angular mug yielding a really gorgeous surface

yielding a really gorgeous surface

and on the lower right appears to be a signature in red--a rarity among pith paintings as I understand it

(displayed to great effect as they hold this ambiguous stick

The puzzles are part of the Perceptual Reasoning portion of the test

and in 1868 the IOOF voted to establish Degree Lodges of the Daughters of Rebekah

Barbour's Irish Flax Thread Hand-reading Victorian Era Trade Card angular mug yielding a really gorgeous surfaceHow could I resist a trade card that also delivered fortunes based on the shape of one's hand?! I think it's really great looking on the front with this fan formed by hands and shells on the corners, and then on the back we learn that the "spatulate hand" indicates an often tyrannical disposition, while pointy hands mean love of beauty (though excessive imagination!) and then all sorts of details about square hands including reading of the lines of